Chambliss, Democrats clash on Civil War

[Judi Lynn]

Chambliss, Democrats clash on Civil War

By BOB KEMPER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 09/18/06

Washington – Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia has Democrats sniping at him for a comment he made last week suggesting that if the South had had better intelligence, it would have won the Civil War.

Democrats leaked a story to a Capitol Hill newspaper, published Monday, that Chambliss, a Republican, had said in a closed-door meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday that had the South won, "We'd be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln."

The newspaper, Roll Call, quoted unnamed Democrats as decrying what they termed Chambliss' inappropriate comparison of the Civil War to the war on terror.

But Chambliss' staff said he never made reference to Davis, the Confederate president. He didn't even raise the subject of the Civil War, they said.
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What Chambliss said, according to his office, was, "If Gen. J.E.B. Stuart had had better intelligence, we'd all be meeting in Richmond right now." Stuart, a West Point graduate and cavalry officer, was a pioneer in the use of scouts and wartime intelligence.
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